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I love the angle you brought to this challenge, Margaret. Competition, domination, survival instinct are the keys to life on Earth - except that in the animal kingdom, no sin is attached to it. We sentient beings know the difference between good and evil, and seem more motivated by greed than the hungry hawk of your poem.

A great meditation, Margaret, and shows the truth of what is red in tooth and claw: that killing is deep in the nature of life, in our nature. It's when we pick up all of those tools to accomplish it that all of the crows cry fowl. (Sorry.) Hadn't heard that tale about Cain, so the Man in the Moon is menacing one ...

Palm a poem as if fragile even if the words are bold. Let them sink into your skin as if moonlight, let them flow through your veins until they become ordinary - for only then will we know they nourished.

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"What should I say about your tendency to doubt your struggle or to harmonize your inner and outer life? My wish is ever strong that you find enough patience within you and enough simplicity to have faith. May you gain more and more trust in what is challenging, and confidence in the solitude you bear. Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right in any case." (Rainer Maria Rilke) Furnborg, Jonsered, Sweden, November 4, 1904 Letters to a Young Poet